Cartridge-holder.



W. W. UREN.

CARTRIDGE HOLDER.

APPLICATION nun JAN.8,1913.

1,073,721. Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

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WILLIAM W. UREN, 0F SAVONA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

CARTRIDGE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

.Iatented Sept. 23, 1913.

Application filed January 8, 1913. Serial No. 740,797.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM XV. UanN, citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Savona, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented a new and useful Cartridgellolder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an individual cartridge holder, such as is used on a cartridge belt, bandolier, or vest, and my object has been to provide a simple holder which will positively retain a cartridge within it against accidental removal and yet from which the same may be quickly and simply released and withdrawn, when re quired, by the finger and thumb of one hand.

The invention is particularly described in the following specification, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure 1 shows the cartridge holder in perspective to an enlarged scale. Fig. 2 is a similar View with a cartridge in position, the dot and dash lines indicating the exaggerated movement of the retainer tofree the cartridge and the position of that cartridge when released from engagement with the retainer, and Fig. 3 is a back elevation of the cartridge holder.

In these drawings 2 represents the body of the holder which is bent from thin resilient sheet metal to embrace about threequarters of the body of the cartridge 10, the open portion 3 being to the front.

The body 2 is provided with any suitable means for attachment to a belt or ba-ndolier, either by rivets, as at l, or by clips punched and bent from the blank of the body 2. From the back of this body 2 a tongue por tion projects upward, and its width is sheared for a short distance down the body, as at 5. This tongue bent backward, as at 6, and is recurved inward to form a re t aining engagement 7 over the upper side of the rim of the cartridge 10. Thereafter this tongue is produced backward and up ward, as at 8, to form a linger engagement by downward pressure on which the retaining member may be sprung back clear of the cartridge rim, as shown by dot and dash lines in Fig. 2.

iVhere the cartridge is rimless, as for certain magazine arms,the retainingV 7 may be formed to enter and engage the extractor groove which engagement may also prevent the cartridge from passing down too far lnto its holder or the latter ob ect may be attained by shaping the body 2 of the holder to fit the shouldered reduction of the eartridge case.

In use, the finger is applied as indicated by the arrow 11 and the thumb to the end of the bullet, as indicated by the arrow 9 and pressure so applied will withdraw the V retainer 7 and will simultaneously press the cartridge upward to the position indicated by dot and dash lines in Fig. 2. From this position the cartridge may be readily withdrawn from the body 2 of the holder.

Vith this holder the cartridge is secure against accidental removal as the spring ongagement 7 positively holds the rim of the cartridge against the upper edge of the holder so that there is no slackness to allow of end shake, and until effort is applied between the bullet end of the cartridge and the end 8 of the retaining member to bend that member back, this engagement will hold. This releasing pressure cannot be accidentally exerted by l'lexure of the body, as is the case with many cartridge holders, as the licxurc in this case will tend to press the member 7 into closer engagement.

The holder is simple to manufacture being preferably oi. one piece; is not liable to derz'mgement and is particularly convenient to use.

Having now particularly described my invention, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

1. As a cartridge holder, the combination with a member formed to partially encircle the body of the cartridge and having provision for attaclnnent of the same to a belt, of a resilient retaining member integral therewith, said member projecting above the upper end of the encircling portion and formed to project over the run of the cartridge and produced upward and backward therefrom to form a finger engagement.

2. As a cartridge holder, the combination with a member formed to partially encircle the body of the cartridge and having provision for attachment to a belt or the like, of a resilient retaining member, said retaining member formed to project within the circle of the holding portion and carried backward therefrom to form a finger engagement.

3. As a cartridge holder, the combination with a cartridge holding receptacle having means for attachment to a belt or the like of a resilient retaining member carried by the cartridge receptacle on the same side as the belt attachment, said retaining member formed to positively engage the upper side of the rim of the cartridge inserted in the receptacle and produced backward and upward from this engagement to form a release engagement.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM w. 'UREN.

Witnesses ROWLAND BRITTAIN, MAY VVHYTE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

